The Human Voice by Anne Karpf

Author:Anne Karpf
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Story of Remarkable Talent
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2006-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

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How Technology Has Transformed the Voice

Within the space of twenty years at the end of the nineteenth century, three major new machines of sound reproduction emerged. They developed out of, and brought with them, new ways of thinking about the relationship between body and voice. Through them the voice was distributed, preserved, and diversified. The advent of the talkies in 1927 brought further change, and seemed to reunite body with voice, a process later accelerated by television. Yet despite this renewed intimacy between ear and eye, in little more than 100 years ideas about the voice had undergone a profound metamorphosis. The number and range of voices to which most of us are exposed also multiplied astonishingly in what was becoming a noisy new world. Technology didn’t kill off the voice, as some feared and others believe – in many respects, its importance was enhanced – but the new technologies did help transform it.

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